Editors that work with eachother. I can't, for the life of me, to get a tech tree out that uses custom improvements. The map editor should support custom ships and the planets should be able to have improvements put on them.

If possible please check this post in a few weeks, I know from reading the latest expansion has some bugs(to be expected with it being new) but I have faith in you people so Im about to buy. If I find any problems in the game after I get experianced I will post. Anyway until then , good luck with the product [SINS brought me back to this game]

First, let me say that I love the game and play it a lot. That's probably why I find these issues so annoying.

I'd prefer it if you just concentrated on cleaning up the game play, interfaces, and bugs.(Although the closed borders suggestion above would be a cool addition). I don't care about more options and additions if the original game play still annoys me. IHere are the things that bug me that I think need to be fixed.

- It's not easy to manage your planets' buildings. If you take over a planet, it takes an annoyingly long time to select each improvement and upgrade it to what you want, especially since you have to clear out the build queue to remove the suggested building upgrades. Most of the time, I just delete existing improvements and rebuild with what I want since it's faster (mostly due to the fact that it jumps to the next available tile to build). Most players (I assume) use 3 specialized planets (econ only, research only, production only). When you build these planets, there is only one "correct" way of building them - using the best available building and with the proper fusion plant/research coordinator modifier. So just give me the ability to specify a planet template so I don't need to manually build up the planets the same way each time. This is even more of an issue in TA because of the different tech trees and not all civs using the same tech path for factories or research. THe game doesn't know that the tech/building you just traded for (or stole) is an improvement over your existing building on every planet. So it doesn't upgrade automatically and you have to switch every building by hand. Maybe this could be a governor option - switch all buildings of one type to another....that would be great and probably easy to implement. (I thought the expansion info said more governors for TA, but all I see is the same 5 that were in DA)

- Give me a button that says "build enough constructors to upgrade all starbases and automatically send constructors to upgrade them". Starbases are really pain to manage. Everytime you get a new tech that adds a module, you have to reassign your starports construction, reassign your waypoints (usually put them right on top of the starbase I want to upgrade), and then keep moving your waypoint around to upgrade every starbase. That is ridiculous. I love (and need the benefits) of starbases, but the management is insane. I don't even build econ or military starbases anymore because it is so tiresome. At the very least, please put the available modules on the main galaxy map when you are zoomed out. Just put a number in parentheses under each starbase. And then clean up the erratic behavior when you send fleets of constructors to star bases (not every ship in fleet prompts for starbase upgrade...sometimes fleet is disbanded and each ship moves into the starbase square without upgrading.)

- Fix the bugs, I need to confirm, but yesterday when I was building the technology +20 percent building for the torians, it was not affecting my total RP upon completion. (That is, planet was producing 100 rp before and after completion)

- cost to research a specific tech seems to increase over time. I read that others are seeing this too. Farms cost 200 rp one turn, then 250 rp later on.

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If you didn't care for #5 from my OP, then how about...

5) In the diplomacy screen, when you choose money to trade, it doesn't always choose the amount to make the AI happy, sometimes it'll pick a number far less, then you have to manually increase it until they are happy. Perhaps adding this as well for the sale of IP in the diplo window as well.

1)More meaningful description to technologies and planetary improvement.More flavour (text) to races and minor races.

2)New interesting events, which are not the usual (good,evil,neutral) choices. Events which are also less groundbreaking

3)New planet surfaces skins, new portraits

4)Starbases should be strenghtened in the end game.Some new tech which give more weapons,defenses,HP and possibility to repair faster for Starbases

5)Korx AI is broken they always perform worst than all other races.

Release a build that doesn't crash to desktop.

I've played an awful lot of Galciv2 builds and not one of them has been without CTD errors. I understand that the game is complex, and that complexity breeds errors, but consistantly releasing new patches, all of which contain fatal errors is a shockingly poor effort and works to undermine Stardock's entire anti-piracy policy.

I remember reading the origional Stardock-Starforce drama just before I bought a copy of Galciv2 and hearing "By releasing frequent, convenient, free updates, we reward people for buying the game." which I thought was perfectly reasonable and a good argument and have since bought galciv2, both expansions and sins of a solar empire either via retail or directly from stardock and have enjoyed them both immensely. What bothers me now is that despite all of the frequent, convenient, free updates I still can't finish a game without having to restart the application at least once.

I get it, the game is constantly under development and as such constantly has bugs. It may be unavoidable, but it is still a gigantic crock of shit.

Dammit, I forgot a big issue. Instead of beefier starbases I would like to have trade screen that would list all the tehcs in hierarchies (so it could be seen easily what tech is prerequisite etc). Also, make it so that when you buy say laser V, you also have to buy all preceding techs - the current system is messy, it does not make much sense and AI can be easily milked.

Okay, that's enough... i've seen plenty of SLIDERS_For&Against that i absolutely must give my opinion on the controversial process.

It's good as is to me, since i can actually prioritize anything at 100% while both others can move to 0% or_between_less_more to 50%, cuz that's what the integral countdown sets forth to get a real TOTAL_EmpireWide_Centralistic_Coherent_Definitive value.
Production/Research/Social (three concepts, variable in meanings to some and yet obvious logic to many more!).

Why is it so hard to "understand" (not sure about that exact word)
- that the **Global Control** pattern has to be present somehow
- that it also doesn't enforce anyone into a pre-set management towards Manufacturing(x2 types) OR Research in any way other than what they HAVE to decide sooner or later by properly developping key assets
- that it wouldn't, in as far as i can evaluate mathematically, provide a different spending or wasting edge in all three major areas if they were maxed out to a full 300% (indirectly) total as a whole
- that when i want to alter the variations at the planetary level (Which IS the whole empire numbers too, btw) i just pay the spreadsheet with my presence and floods it with any focus buttons locked into just * simple columns (Logos & all to hint me about the consequences for me to grasp by looking sharp at any) as i please -- all at once!

0%+15%+85% is always equal to 100%. This metaphor will never let anyone abstract the Laws of Intelligence beyond reality.
Multiply_Divide, cope with it.
Break that very maximum value, and you're in for a nightmarishly different game altogether including a Macro(the biggy type, ya know)-Managing loop hole so daunting you'd instinctively rush for a QUIT permanent button within 20 minutes of trying to handle that much decisions never to return again to this game unless someone brought it right back with the excellent actual balance - asking for y_our begging smiles.

So, there.
Off my soap box.
Keep the sliders or change them, SD.
The risk is still yours to take, but if the above theory didn't convince anybody, nothing ever will.

Sorry about sliding away from the 1 to 5 suggestions schema.
I had to.

Cooled up, don't worry!
You can go about your business - says Obiwan.

Awsome game by the way but these are some things I would like to see
1. the least interesting part of the game to me is the end game there is always a certain point of the game when a win is a foregone conclusion so one idea to add some difficulty to the end game would be to give your civ a diplo penalty when it gets too poweful encouraging smaller civs to band together and possibly prevent you from an easy end game win.
2. maybe give planets a morale penalty when they are too far from your homeworld making it difficult to hold a large empire together near the endgame forcing you to use more tiles on those planets for morale buildings, making them less productive for research or military production.
3. Minor civs still seem like easy picn's for an aggresive civ maybe give diplo penalties for attacking them also. or I also like the idea of them becoming vassals if you choose.this might make them a little more relevant instead of a civ you could easily bump off to gain a highly productive planet with little consiquence.
4. toggle civs on and off on the graphs
5. package each game with a bottle of eye drops, my eyes get kinda bloodshot after playing this game all night.
Keep up the good work.

I would like to be able to place a spy in infiltration mode like this poster is suggesting. Because they're not arousing suspicion by throwing a spanner in the works, they should also need to be detected by a defensive spy first before they can be nullified.

Bring back the old invasion screen. (To be honest I thought that improving its graphics was what they had in mind for TA).

Here's a suggestion on the ascension victory.

Obtaining ascension starbases to win is a good addition to victory options. Having "Korath Clan -- 1000 Weeks until Victory" appear in the top-left corner is alarming at first and later a constant nagging to intervene. It isn't enjoyable to sit back and watch it tick down unless you want to risk war by getting your own or attack the race that owns them. Because we all want a slice of the cake I believe it would be more fun to change the number of ascension crystals to nearly the same number of the races. Perhaps exceeding by a certain amount occordingly. Obtaining one base shouldn't affect the countdown if someone has the same amount of ascension bases as you do. They should oppose each other. The countdown only decreases by the difference of how many more crystals a race has obtained compared to the race with the second most. Eliminate the hate for having ascension-bases if the counter does not descend. And lastly, make the number of weeks depend on map size, and much less for smaller maps. Basically this causes only the race that is profiting from the ascension bases to be targeted and introduces some new strategy into the game. Right now it has a serious lack of polish, so whatever the case it should be improved.